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Private applicator is a person applying restricted use pesticides to his/her own crops or land. A person certified as a private applicator to use or supervise the use of a restricted use pesticide for purposes of producing any agricultural commodity on lands owned, rented, or leased by him/her or his/her employer.

Private applicators must be licensed prior to purchasing and using a pesticide designated by the Department of Agriculture as a restricted use pesticide. Persons interested in becoming a private applicator license must:

The fee for the private applicator license is $50 and is effective for 5 years. Private applicators wanting to renew their license must acquire 6 continuing education credits in 5 years by attending approved training courses.

Private applicators are required to keep records of all restricted use pesticides that they apply. These records must be logged within 14 days of the application and kept for 2 years following the application. Below are the 8 record keeping requirements:

  1. Applicator name and applicator ID number.
  2. The month, day, and year of the application.
  3. The location. You must be able to locate the field 2 years after the application. You can use many methods to do this, which include county, township, range and section, maps or written descriptions, or legal property descriptions.
  4. The size of the area treated. Use simple calibration formulas, such as:
     
    Gallons of mix used
    		 = acres applied
     
    Sprayer GPA
  5. Total amount of undiluted product used, not the total mix. Do not note labeled rate. Use simple calibration formulation, such as:
    Rate x acres applied = total amount
  6. The crop, commodity, stored product, or site to which the pesticide was applied.
  7. The brand or product name of the restricted use pesticide.
  8. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Registration Number.